VOX-Pol has released its latest report in the VOX-Pol publication series, titled Reconciling Impact and Ethics: An Ethnography of Research in Violent Online Political Extremism, authored by Dounia Mahlouly, on 23 July 2019. About the Report Gathering empirical evidence from interviews and focus groups, this study highlights some of the ethical dilemmas face d by the academic…
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We Need a ‘Visual Turn’ in Violent Online Extremism Research
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Conference on New Perspectives on Non-State Political Violence
Students in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast hosted a conference dedicated to ‘New Perspectives on Non-state Political...
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VOX-Pol Newsletter 6(4) November 2019
Welcome to Volume 6 Issue 4 of the VOX-Pol Newsletter. If you have colleagues or friends who may be interested in the content of...
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Crowdfunding and Cryptocurrency Use by Far-Right and Jihadi Groups
By Shahed Warreth Introduction While extremist groups are well financed, little research has been carried out on how they the internet to use crowdfunding...
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VOX-Pol at SRE 2019
VOX-Pol attended the 2019 Security Research Event (SRE), which took place in Helsinki on the 6-7 November. The event was co-organised by the European Commission and...
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